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title: Example: in a café in Toronto, Mum taps her phone on the reader and… — Cards, banks and apps · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: in a café in Toronto, Mum taps her phone on the reader and the coffee is paid in a second. Who acts: Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cards, banks and apps, sentence 6

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Example: in a café in Toronto, Mum taps her phone on the reader and the coffee is paid in a second.

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**Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** tap, pay · **To what, where:** phone, café, coffee

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cards, banks and apps» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson:6
# text = Example: in a café in Toronto, Mum taps her phone on the reader and the coffee is paid in a second.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	taps	tap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tap** | present | Mum | Mum's phone |  | a café in Toronto |  | on the reader | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent phone=Instrument on reader=Patient |
| 2 | **pay** | present · passive |  | the coffee |  |  |  | in a second | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:007-cards-banks-and-apps.lesson:6`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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